Re: [PATCH net-next 3/8] net: mscc: Add MDIO driver
From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Thu Mar 29 2018 - 10:06:00 EST
On 23/03/2018 at 21:49:39 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 09:11:12PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > Add a driver for the Microsemi MII Management controller (MIIM) found on
> > Microsemi SoCs.
> > On Ocelot, there are two controllers, one is connected to the internal
> > PHYs, the other one can communicate with external PHYs.
>
> Hi Alexandre
>
> This looks to be standalone. Such drivers we try to put in
> drivers/net/phy.
>
> > +static int mscc_miim_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum)
> > +{
> > + struct mscc_miim_dev *miim = bus->priv;
> > + u32 val;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + mutex_lock(&miim->lock);
>
> What are you locking against here?
>
> And you don't appear to initialize the mutex anywhere.
>
> > +static int mscc_miim_reset(struct mii_bus *bus)
> > +{
> > + struct mscc_miim_dev *miim = bus->priv;
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + if (miim->phy_regs) {
> > + writel(0, miim->phy_regs + MSCC_PHY_REG_PHY_CFG);
> > + writel(0x1ff, miim->phy_regs + MSCC_PHY_REG_PHY_CFG);
> > + mdelay(500);
> > + }
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < PHY_MAX_ADDR; i++) {
> > + if (mscc_miim_read(bus, i, MII_PHYSID1) < 0)
> > + bus->phy_mask |= BIT(i);
> > + }
>
> Why do this? Especially so for the external bus, where the PHYs might
> have a GPIO reset line, and won't respond until the gpio is
> released. The core code does that just before it scans the bus, or
> just before it scans the particular address on the bus, depending on
> the scope of the GPIO.
>
IIRC, this was needed when probing the bus without DT, in that case, the
mdiobus_scan loop of __mdiobus_register() will fail when doing the
get_phy_id for phys 0 to 31 because get_phy_id() transforms any error in
-EIO and so it is impossible to register the bus. Other drivers have a
similar code to handle that case.
Anyway, I'll remove that loop for now because I'm only supporting DT.
I'll get back to that later.
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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com